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I’M STILL HERE ( Brazil: Portuguese, English subtitles)  in theatres

The commencement of this potent, poignant, profound film is saturated in palatable love; director Walter Salles’s portrait of Rubens Paiva’s (a former Congressman opposed to the military dictatorship in 1960’s Brazil) family, seeped in saccharine, sugary, uxorious affection: Fernanda Torres is stratospherically phenomenal as Rubens wife, Eunice, mother of five and madly, ardently infatuated with her husband; theirs, a love affair transcendent of time; five, free thinking progeny lovingly devoted to Rubens and Eunice surrounded by a landscape scripted by the gods, in 1971 Rio de Janeiro.

Based on the biography (“Still Here”) of Pavia’s only son, Marcelo Rubens Paiva, brilliantly documents Brazil’s desultory military regime in the 1970’s, Rubens disappearance and Eunice’s astonishing transformation from halcyon housewife and mother to a lawyer and human rights activist; Torres’s portrayal is one for the ages and will resonate for eternity in the hallowed laurels of filmdom.

Without sentimentality “I’m Still here” accurately depicts the barbarity of a moralless, inhumane, corrupt system; Eunice, arrested after Rubens incarceration, is grilled for weeks, kept in a rancid cell, clothed as she was taken, but with all their might could not erase, torture or execute her dignity.

There are no words to describe the remarkability of this film, it aches with honesty, soars with temerity, innate resilience; featuring a woman of valor, a woman who despite overwhelming provocations refuses to surrender her instinctive will to survive and best the odds.

FIVE STARS!!!!!

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